Word: hoodlum
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...attacks on Roosevelt, the Spanish Loyalists, and the French Popular Front; or it emerges slyly from between the lines in praise for the Fascists that seems almost unconscious. He regards the Fascist troops in Spain as crusaders in a fine cause, and the International Brigade as the "hoodlum strata" of States seem to be drifting toward "government by the bleachers," i.e., the people. For this and for the remainder of the world's unrest, however, Williams has a sweeping cure-all; he proposes that the United States participate in a "wholesale attack" on Russia to stamp out Communism. He speaks...
...genial, round-faced Klausman walked back, two men silently threaded through the crowd behind him, two strange, grey-coated creatures washed up from the depths of New York City's criminal world. One was Anthony Esposito, 35, a long-nosed, horse-faced hoodlum who had been in & out of New York's prisons and reformatories for 16 years, had once been deported to Italy and sneaked back in. His brother William, 29, had robbed drunks, snatched pocketbooks, done a seven-year stretch in Sing Sing. Their father had served time for forgery. Their brother was in Clinton Prison...
What chance will there be of making democracy work at home with this group running the government? What chance, when the annual expenditures for defense will make social legislation impossible? When every frustrated, unsatisfied hoodlum in America will start buying colored shirts and parading with his local fascist party? When it will be impossible to critize fascism, lest it disturb relations with our good friends and customers beyond the seas. Hitler won't have to invade America until it is so torn be inner conflict that the German army could cross the ocean in canoes. It is time...
...answer is that he was a sports writer himself . . . but such a punk that he never made the grade. . . . Ickes has been extremely sensitive . . . but when he is doing the punching he draws the foul line down around the kneecaps. . . . Impecunious Johnny One-Suit . . . proud to collaborate with the hoodlum government of Chicago...
...late in November, two years before, three men had cornered Alex (Red) Alpert, a Brooklyn, N. Y. hoodlum, in a yard on Van Siclen Avenue, shot him in the back and rode on down the street...